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Disappearing battery icon from menu bar after 10.4.9 upgrade

After doing the 10.4.9 software update on my iMac the battery icon would occasionally disappear after rebooting!

I have the battery icon on my menu bar as part of the “Energy Saver” system preference which I use to control my UPS. Pulling and re-inserting the the USB cable to my UPS would make the battery icon magically re-appear.

However strangely (and annoyingly!) this would normally only survive about two reboots and then would disappear again ;-(

The solution which worked for me was to follow the usual first step advice when troubleshooting Mac problems….

Repair disk permissions

Download & install latest combo update package

This is the first time I’ve ever had to follow this procedure but it does seem to work!

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My name is Barry Walsh. I'm a freelance IT consultant from London, UK. [more]

This blog is mostly about Perl programming because this is what I use and love (and occasionally hate!) for the majority of my working (and sometimes non-working) day.

Occasionally I will touch on other subjects like PostgreSQL, Mac OSX, UNIX, Linux, Ruby, jQuery, Javascript, XML and many more techie things that I also play with regularly. Other non techie aspects of my life may slip in now and again but I'll try and keep that to a minimum because its normally boring anyway :)